Shooting suspect says his target was Armenian patriarch
Friday, March 9, 2007
A Turkish man accused of firing in the air outside an Armenian church claimed Wednesday his real target had been Patriarch Mesrob II, the spiritual leader of the tiny Armenian community, the Anatolia news agency reported.

"I had prepared it for (Mesrob) Mutafyan II," Volkan Karova shouted to reporters ...
The pair had been arrested late Sunday just hours after two men fired a shot in the air outside a church in the city's Kumkapi district.

At the time, a ceremony was being held there for slain ethnic Armenian journalist Hrant Dink.

The ceremony at the church, on the European side of Istanbul, was to mark the 40th day since Dink, the 52-year-old ethnic Armenian editor of the bilingual Agos weekly, was shot dead outside his office.

Anxiety has engulfed the Armenian community and intellectuals since Dink's murder on Januray 19, and in recent interviews Mesrob II has said that his office had been receiving threats.

Dink had angered nationalist circles and the courts for describing the World War I massacres of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire as genocide, a label that Ankara fiercely rejects.

"It's important for people to be aware of the Armenian Genocide and the cover-up by the Turkish government and our present US Administration, Turkey's allies in the defense and oil industries. Had the Armenian Genocide been acknowledged as a Crime Against Humanity as it was, Hitler might not have thought he could get away with the Jewish Holocaust. History does and will repeat itself, unless we stop that cycle," says Serge Tankian (System Of A Down).

You're so right.
We should just stand by and do nothing while women are stoned to death and gay people are hanged. We should stand by and do nothing while Jews are killed just for being Jews. We should just stand by and let other governments kill people for driving on the wrong road. We should stand by and let others kill people for apostacy, because after all, it's not our business.
Just like fighting Germany in WWII was none of our business.
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Armenians are on ur list as well...unfortunately...